On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:45:53AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
> > So how is Gnome3 for you?
> >
> > It always starts up in fallback mode for me. I do have radeon KMS
> > runnning, but mesa is using the software DRI renderer. That might be
> > why it starts in fallback mode.
>
> Ahh, that's because I am not a member of the video group. Fixed. Now I
> get the gallium DRI driver. glxgears works nicely and less than 15% cpu
> usage for 60fps when I use the xfce4 desktop.
>
> But Gnome is not so happy: all I get is a black screen with the cursor
> when I log in. After a while it switches to screensave mode, brings up
> the password entry prompt when I move the mouse, and I can unlock and
> come back to the big black empty nothiningness. This new Gnome
> experience is somewhat underwhelming.
I'll screw-up my courage and give it a try soon. Had some furnace
repairs to accomplish this weekend: installed a new controller board
today.
Have you tried KDE4 yet? I still haven't tried it with compositing
enabled, but it works well for me otherwise. Can't remember the source
package name I was waiting on (to be rebuilt by the new compiler with
the working optimizer), but I *think* it was qt4-x11 or some such.
--Bob